Help with screen being cut off by an in game grey bar

[MrBachelor17]

Not sure how to explain I can post a picture of what it's doing. At some point when I was trying to figure out how to launch in windowed mode I finally figured out that you could Alt enter to make the game go windowed and I think ever since I did that there's this gray bar on the right side that messes up the view of the game and even uninstalling and reinstalling it still shows up

[Frullato di ratti]

An in game gay bar?

[Monokuma]

Did you try alt + entering again?

[MrBachelor17]

Yeah I tried alt entering I couldn't ever figure out this issue I ended up buying the game again on PS5 just to have a copy that doesn't have the issue even uninstalling and reinstalling didn't fix it on the PC.

[MrBachelor17]

Hitting alt + enter will go back to windowed or shift back to full screen from windowed. But both ways the grey bay stays in the right side of the game. And yes it's in the game window/in game. It actually pushes the game image over to the left by the same amount that the gray bar takes up on the right so it cuts off an inch of the image that would be on the game. I can't remember exactly when it showed up when I was trying to do windowed mode I did the steam launch option command to windowed mode but eventually removed that when trying to fix the issue but the issue persisted. Like I said even a complete uninstall of the game and files and reinstalling did not make it stop doing the gray bar issue.

[Cains]

Is it possible that your screen is broken?

[MrBachelor17]

Haha nope not a broken screen. Graybar only appears for this game I play numerous other games without issues.

[MrBachelor17]

I know people must think I'm doing something dumb and I think I'm probably doing something dumb too but geez. I know how to make a thing full screen again and I know how to tell the difference between something happening in a game and a physically broken monitor.

[MrBachelor17]

After trying to fix it for a bit I even convinced myself that maybe it had always been there and was part of the game. Because I've never seen an issue this persistent that I couldn't figure out. But after getting it on the PS5 and seeing that it's not on that and looking back at Old recorded footage of when I first streamed the game the gray bar doesn't exist on either of those places so I knew it was some error on my PC version that appeared sometime after my first play session.

[High Foodcourt]

there's a viewing mode for this game that puts the game in an old CRT looking monitor in a dark room. grey bar might be the CRT monitor.

[Rollapoid]

It's the frame used for fullscreen, fully visible while the UI is at size 1 or 2. On size 3, the game screen stops being centered and that's why you're seeing a gray bar. On my end, much of the UI is cut off so I can't play at size 3. I just use stretched fullscreen instead.

[MrBachelor17]

No I know what y'all mean about the one to one one to two one two three ratios that makes it look like you're playing on an old CRT it's literally a glitched gray bar on the right side of the screen no matter what format I put it in and I know it's not supposed to be there because the version I have on PS5 does not have it. And the very first recording I did on PC before the issue popped up also does not have it

[MrBachelor17]

Seemingly no one at least no one who has seen this on the forums has had the same issue if there is a way to report this to developer and show my proof to them maybe I should seek that out but since I am able to play it on console I kind of stopped trying to fix it on PC

[MrBachelor17]

Is there no way to post a screenshot to here so y'all can see what I'm talking about?

[Rollapoid]

Originally posted by MrBachelor17:

Is there no way to post a screenshot to here so y'all can see what I'm talking about?

You would have to upload your screenshot to an image hosting website and attach a link to the hosted image in your reporting post.

[Shamefuru Dispray]

Originally posted by MrBachelor17:

Is there no way to post a screenshot to here so y'all can see what I'm talking about?

I have the same issue. I haven't played for about six months and now, when I have the game in windowed mode, there is a grey band across the top of the screen with "Total War: Shogun 2" in it. I wouldn't mind, but it means the bottom of the screen is cut off. It is 100% new. I can't get rid of it.